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My Super Snacks Review and GIVEAWAY

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Moms, how many times does the following scenario happen to you?

You feed the kids a healthy breakfast, wash faces, get dressed, find shoes, get out the door, buckle into car seats, and are off to your morning play date when you hear from behind you a little voice saying, “I’m hungry”!

My kids can be hungry at all hours of the day sometimes.  I think the little one may be in a growth spurt, because she’s constantly wanting more to eat.  Feeding her while we are at home is no problem, as we have a variety of healthy and nutritious foods from which to choose.   On-the-go food is different however.

Our typical “portable snacks” usually include mini bags of goldfish crackers, fruit snacks, and, if I’m lucky and have been planning ahead, little snack bags of pre-washed grapes ready to go.  Other than that, I don’t have time to prepare all of my kids’ potential traveling snack food as well as all of the other meals.

Enter a great solution for moms like me who want to give their kids the most nutritional bang for their buck when it’s time to eat.  My Super Snacks.

My Super Snacks were developed by Slivia and Katie, two moms who began mysuperfoodscompany.com out of a desire for wholesome and nutritious snacks that could go anywhere.

Each package of granola bites has lots to brag about:  all natural, non GMO, containing flax seed, whole grain oats and real fruit.  Each pouch contains 800+ mg of Omega 3’s, 11 g of whole grains, and 3 g of fiber and protein.

We got a sampling of all three flavors of My Super Snacks:

– Blueberry Banana Acai

– Chocolate Chip

– Apple Raisin

The girls couldn’t wait to try them.  We busted open all three bags and each member of our family of 4 got one piece from each bag.

Each bite was about the size of a regular sized marshmallow, just a little less round.  They remind me of a Nutri-grain bar, except the fruit is mixed through each bit and there are far less aritificial ingredients and sugar content.

The blueberry banana acai was my personal favorite.  It had the most moisture and best overall texture of all three.

The girls loved the flavor of the apple raisin, as it reminds you of an oatmeal cookie, or a mini apple spice cake.

Hubs liked chocolate chip the best.  Chocolate chips are always a crowd-pleaser.

If you are like me and looking for a quick snack containing wholesome ingredients that are actually beneficial for your child and isn’t simply a “filler” food, then I suggest you get yourself some of these snacks!

P.S.  The best part of buying this product is that they are donating a portion of sales to end child hunger in the US.

Like My Superfood Snacks?

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Order online or find your closest store HERE

Follow their blog full of great recipes and tips for feeding a healthy family

Visit their website and learn more about MySuperFoodsCompany.com

Win your own!

Enter below for a chance to win a box of each of the three flavors (that’s 18 pouches!) of My Super Snacks to try with your own kids.  Be a trendsetter for all the other kids on the block!

How to Enter:

-Like MySuperFoodsCompany on Facebook

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My Super Snacks: Yummy granola bites for kids on the go made with real fruit, omega 3's, and nothing articificial. A snack to feel good about feeding the kids while on the move!

 

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Copy-Kids Review and GIVEAWAY

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Moms, have you heard of Copy Kids? I stumbled accross their website awhile back and was SO EXCITED when I watched this video about what they do.

Copy-Kids DVD Trailer from Copy-Kids on Vimeo.

These moms are seriously helping kids all over the world to learn to love eating fruits and veggies!

What is Copy-Kids?

Copy-Kids is a DVD (they have one out and currently have a second one in production coming out at the end of the summer 2013) that shows little kids happily eating different fruits and veggies.  The DVD includes different chapters for different foods.

The Copy-Kids eat raw broccoli, bell peppers, avocado, cucumber, tomato, carrots, and all kinds of healthy fruits and veggies.  The theory is that children who watch this DVD will desire to mimic, or “copy” the kids they see on TV and eat the veggies too!

Because teaching kids to love eating healthy foods is one of my passions as a mom, as well as a big “why” behind this blog, I was so excited to be able to get a Copy-Kids DVD to try out on my own little ladies.

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The girls were SO excited to open a package the mailman brought just for them, and were delighted that it was a DVD.  I told them the name of the DVD, and it intrigued them; they asked to watch it RIGHT AWAY.

What I wanted to do was to make sure I had all of the fruits and vegetables on hand before playing the DVD.  This way, as they viewed each part, the girls could reach for that food.  Although I did not have everything featured in the DVD in my house at that moment, I chopped up what I did have and got us all set up to watch!

Note:  After putting the DVD in, I realized that each chapter (featuring one fruit or veggie) was 7 minutes, I realized that we wouldn’t be making our way through the whole DVD in one sitting anyway.

The girls were so excited to check out the kids on TV, and were ready to copy!

Using the DVD

As I played each chapter of the DVD for the girls, I removed all bowls of food except the one being shown in that chapter.  This way, little Emma wouldn’t down the avocado the whole time (she loves that stuff), instead of trying the food being shown on the TV.

One of my favorite things the girls saw on the DVD was a little girl eating a bell pepper like an apple.  Grace, my oldest, got a kick out of that, and for the next few days she’d ask for bell peppers to eat.  Once she even “snuck” one and I found this in her room:

(Excuse the pixels, this one was taken with my phone!)

Anyway, is that cute or what?  I’m thrilled that a bell pepper has become a fun snack.

My little one, Emma, was not ever a big fan of raw broccoli.  Most adults I know don’t even care for it that much!  However, as Emma watched the Copy Kids eat the broccoli, she learned to like at least the stems, or the “bottoms”.  Check out this cute 1.5 minute video of our escapades as we watched Copy Kids.

 

Want to try this with kids you know?

This DVD works like a charm!  I was very surprised to see how much it inspired my little girls to love their veggies.  Grace is still loving her bell peppers and eats them every day!

You can buy the Copy-Kids DVD here.

You can also keep up with Copy-Kids on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and their blog.

Following along will ensure that you stay in the loop about that second DVD coming out soon!

Win a Copy-Kids DVD + a $25 Whole Foods Gift Card

Cai from Copy-Kids would like to offer one lucky winner a FREE Copy-Kids DVD as well as a $25 Whole Foods Gift Card to be able to go out and purchase the produce you will need to provide for the kids as they watch.  Yes, you heard me right: A Copy-Kids DVD + a $25 Whole Foods gift card.

*If the winner does not have a Whole Foods nearby, we will work with you to come up with an alternative gift card to the grocery store most convenient for you.*

How to Win:

Enter below for a chance to win your very own Copy-Kids DVD + $25 Whole Foods Gift Card.

*Note* – one entry choice will be to PIN the following image to one of your Pinterest boards.  You will need to leave a comment on today’s post letting us know your Pinterest URL and the name of the board you pinned to.  This entry is worth 3 points!  Woo Hoo!

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Giveaway is open to US residents until Tuesday, July 1 at 11:59 pm!  Good Luck!

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ViveVita Everyday Elegance Chair Covers: Review and GIVEAWAY!

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We Love Kids. Kids Make Messes.

So, most of us reading this blog are parents.  Parents who have kids.  Kids who love to eat delicious and creative food like we make here.  We love thinking up new ways we can make meal time healthy and FUN for our kids.

Sometimes, however, meal time isn’t that fun for our poor furniture.

I don’t know about you, but the chairs we use at my kitchen table have been through a lot.  Since we transitioned our youngest out of her booster seat with tray attached, there has been more and more “decoration” of the seats of our kitchen chairs.

A couple of weeks ago, I realized that, if I have a prayer of keeping clean seats on my kitchen chairs,  I needed something waterproof, washable, and yet comfortable (non-plastic) to sit on.

After a lot of googling, I finally found ViveVita: a company started by Robyn, a mom of 9 children who invented some awesome products out of necessity.  No one knows what kinds of products moms need better than moms who are in the trenches, right?

One of the fantastic items Robyn has created are the Everyday Elegance Chair Covers.  I quickly realized that these chair covers were exactly what I was looking for!  I contacted Robyn, thrilled to have found her product, and she offered to GIVE AWAY a set of chair covers to one of my readers!  Yay!

Everyday Elegance Chair Covers

I was so excited to receive and start using my chair covers.  They come in packs of 2, so I ordered 2 packs for my 4 dining chairs.

Immediately, I opened up the packages and put those puppies on!

The Simply Linen color from the Everyday Elegance line looks great on my chairs in my kitchen and dining area because of the colors we have on the walls, cabinets, and counter.  Also available in this line are the following color options:

-Ebony Black

-Richly Red

-Sagey Green

-Creamy Brown

All that is necessary to put the chair covers on is to lay the top panel flat on your chair, Velcro the two connecting fabric strips in the back, and fold the panel down over the back section once you’ve attached the two strips.  No ties, pulling, stretching, tucking, or any other sweat-inducing activities needed!

Notice how nice the covers look from the back.  The Velcro strips are attached beneath that top panel that comes down over them for a seamless look.

The chair covers measure approximately 19x18x7.  They fit most dining chairs, including those with plenty of stuffing in the seats!  Depending upon the type of chairs you have, the fabric could also be tucked beneath your existing cushion, if it’s removable.

The cushions on my kitchen chairs are not very thick, so I actually used the inside pad from our old chair covers from IKEA (which were completely shot), and the fit and look was great.  The length of the fabric that falls down each side of the chair is about 7 inches.

The Test

When I was googling waterproof chair covers, (ultimately leading me to ViveVita), I saw this photo in another blogger’s post reviewing the Everyday Elegance Chair Covers:(source)

She poured cola on her chair covers, and showed how the waterproof material prevented the cola from absorbing, and then wiped clean.

I decided to conduct my own test using orange juice.  Check out my results!

It looks like the liquid is absorbing, but wait!

Even though it looked like some of the juice was making it’s way into the fabric, when wiped with a damp cloth and allowed to dry, not a trace of liquid (orange or clear) was visible on the chair cover.

After spot cleaning, washing, and using these chair covers for over a week, I can say that they are still looking like new and working fabulously!

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!

Love These?

Meet Robyn: Follow Vive Vita on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and her blog.

Buy Your Own: You can purchase your very own Everyday Elegance Chair Covers from Vive Vita on Amazon.

Win Your Own: Enter below for a chance to win your very own package of Vive Vita Chair Covers in one of the following beautiful colors: richly red, sagey green, or ebony black.

*Note* – one entry choice will be to PIN the following image to one of your Pinterest boards.  You will need to leave a comment on today’s post letting us know your Pinterest URL and the name of the board you pinned to.  This entry is worth 3 points!  Woo Hoo!

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Win a set of Everyday Elegance Chair covers by Vive Vita. They are washable, waterproof, comfortable to sit on, and fit any dining chair. --- A great product! This giveaway ends 5/17/13 at 11:59 pm, but this link provides a helpful product review to le

Giveaway is open to US residents until Friday, May 17 at 11:59 pm.  Good Luck!

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